January 25

Births

1938: Etta James (Jazz & R&B Singer)

1956: Andy Cox (Guitar for The English Beat & Fine Young Cannibals)

1981: Alicia Keys (R&B Singer / Songwriter)

Events

1858: Mendelssohn’s "Wedding March" was presented for the first time, as the daughter of Queen Victoria married the Crown Prince of Prussia.

1958: Elvis Presley's "Jailhouse Rock" enters the UK pop charts at Number One, the first single to ever do so in the country.

1967: Jefferson Airplane's Grace Slick and Paul Kantner become the proud parents of a baby girl they name "God." (Her name is later changed to "China.")

1978: Joy Division made their live debut when they played Pips in Manchester, England.

1980: Paul McCartney is released from a Tokyo jail after nine days. He had been incarcerated after Japanese customs officials found half a pound of marijuana in his luggage. McCartney flies to Amsterdam to meet with his family.

1983: The Allman Brothers bassist Lamar Williams died of lung cancer age 34. He joined the band in 1972 after the death of original bassist Berry Oakley.

1984: John Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, donates $375,000 to Liverpool's Strawberry Field, an orphanage which served as the inspiration for the Beatles song "Strawberry Fields Forever."

1989: Madonna started divorce proceedings for the second time from Sean Penn at Los Angeles County Court and moved into a new three-bedroom house in Hollywood Hills.

1991: Paul McCartney appears on MTV's Unplugged.

2003: Billy Joel escapes relatively unharmed when he totals his Mercedes on a highway in his native Long Island, NY.

2010: KISS rang the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange.